The Power Vertical Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks to journalists after a televised questions and answers session in Moscow on December 15. December 15, 2011 The great post-election shuffle continues. Where it will end nobody knows. Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Naryshkin resigned today to take a seat in the State Duma, where he is [...]
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December 16, 2011
November 17, 2011
Russian military has ‘no one left to draft’
Russia has no conscript-age young men left to recruit, Russia’s chief of the General Staff complained on Thursday. The current conscript service crisis in the Russian Armed Forces is mainly due to demographic decline, bullying and brutal treatment of conscripts. General Nikolai Makarov said only 11.7% of young men aged 18-27 were eligible for the [...]
November 17, 2011
From the archive, 17 November 1979: Art historian who spied for the Soviet Union
In 1972 a humble naval lieutenant in a financial jam sold some humble naval secrets to the Russians. The judge at his trial spoke of a “monstrous betrayal” and sentenced him to 21 years. That, amid the myriad issues of the Blunt affair, is a point of reference worth recalling. The sub-lieutenant traded a few [...]
October 21, 2011
‘Hope invested in Obama will end up in museum of lost hope’
With the Occupy Wall Street movement showing no sign of abating, author and blogger James Kunstler told RT he believes President Obama is a hostage to big business – and the mainstream media’s double standards will push more people onto the streets. “We’re living in a time in the United States when the consensus about [...]
October 16, 2011
Russia stop Olympic champs for second straight team saber world title
Russia have proved their class as leaders in the women’s team saber, successfully defending their world champions’ title in Catania, Italy. Ekaterina Diatchenko, Sofiya Velikaya, Yulia Gavrilova and Dina Galiakbarova squared up against the Olympic champs from the Ukrainian team in the final and managed to take the upper hand in a tight battle, 45-43. [...]
October 12, 2011
Grigory Yavlinsky: ‘Change Is Only Possible If There Is An Alternative’
The Power Vertical Grigory Yavlinsky gestures as he delivers a speech during the 15th Forum 2000 Conference in Prague on October 10. I caught up with Yabloko founder Grigory Yavlinsky, who was in Prague this week to participate in the Forum 2000 conference. In a brief on-the-record chat, we discussed Vladimir Putin’s decision to return [...]
September 12, 2011
How many deaths will it take?
Every single time a transport tragedy happens in Russia, everyone freaks out, high-profile meetings take place, commentators weigh in – and then a month goes by, and we’re back where we started. Meanwhile, the demographics question is routinely raised by politicians when they are taking time off from visiting disaster sites – the Russian population [...]